Herein presented thesis focuses on a very complicated relationship between the Internet and selected law areas. Its aim is to emphasize the influence of information technologies on law; specifically it examines challenges which these technologies present to the copyright law and data protection. The thesis is divided into five chapters. The first and the second chapter with respect to the comprehensiveness of the topic, which they describe, do not have ambitions to analyse the issue in detail; they rather present it in broader and more general context. On the other hand chapter three and four discuss specific data protection and social network issue much deeper. The conclusion of the paper is considered as a certain summary and demonstration of author's thoughts and opinions towards analyzed issue. The first chapter aimed to describe specific environment of the Internet including its origin and development. This chapter also deals with law aspects of the Internet while it presents various considerations that characterise the relationship between law and the Internet, their mutual interaction and challenges they have to face in this environment. The second chapter analyses historical transformations of copyright law and put them in context with growing significance that copyright law undoubtedly has...

This thesis studies how Liberal Democrat members and supporters use Internet tools to mobilise volunteers within local election campaigns. It also identifies who is most likely to use these tools and who is most likely to perceive that they are useful. Existing studies of the use of Internet tools to mobilise volunteers are limited because they have typically focused upon the Internet-as-a-whole, instead of breaking it down into smaller, more meaningful categories. It is important to study Internet tools individually as they each have different features and some are more deeply integrated into mobilisation practices than others. Therefore, this thesis addresses this limitation by focusing upon three specific Internet tools: Facebook, Twitter and email. It uses data generated from a participant observation, survey and series of semi-structured interviews. Similarly, few studies have been carried out in England or within the context of second order elections. As a result, this thesis explores the perceptions of grassroots activists in relation to English local elections, thus offering a relatively unique perspective upon the link between Internet tools and volunteer mobilisation. The findings confirm that it is beneficial to analyse Internet tools individually because there are significant differences in how they are used, in addition to who uses them and who perceives them to be useful. Email is the most commonly used; it is also perceived to be the most useful for mobilising volunteers and increasing membership. Younger people are more likely to use Facebook and Twitter and to perceive that they are useful tools, whereas older people are less likely to do so. This emphasises the importance of younger supporters, as the party would find it more difficult to reach online audiences without them. This thesis argues that people that become involved as a result of Internet tools are less likely to remain heavily involved over the long-term. For instance, externally elected public officials are less likely to join online or use Internet tools to mobilise volunteers and increase membership. This fits with a wider pattern of engagement amongst party elites and long-term members. It emphasises the importance of using a combination of online and offline tools to mobilise volunteers and increase membership.

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Made available in DSpace on 2015-04-16T15:23:25Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 ArquivoTotalAline.pdf: 4686179 bytes, checksum: 88151b731d4ac9ef133385630b1e9ee8 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2013-03-26 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior - CAPES / This research addresses the De olho na CI in the perspective of the following social media: Internet - Blog, Twitter and Facebook - viewed as resources capable of developing Social Networks on the Internet (SNI), and as a means of information dissemination. Its main aim was to analyze how the dissemination of interest for information professionals occurs through the social media De olho na CI. It adopts the reference of being a descriptive research, of qualitative approach, using part of the methods of virtual ethnography, participant observation and field diary for data collection. Data were analyzed from the perspective of documental analysis, linked to the context of web search, joining the Social Network Analysis in order to achieve the objectives proposed in the research. It was concluded, during the research, that the social media De olho na CI enable the occurrence of social networks on the internet and that they showed significant growth between the internet network and the information professionals seeking knowledge for their professional training. / A presente pesquisa aborda o De olho na CI na perspectiva das mídias sociais da rede Internet Blog, Twitter e Facebook -, vistas como recursos capazes de desenvolver Redes Sociais na Internet (RSI), e as mesmas como meio de disseminação da informação. Teve como objetivo principal analisar como se processa a disseminação de interesse para os profissionais da informação através das mídias sociais De olho na CI. Adota o referencial da pesquisa descritiva, de abordagem qualitativa, utilizando parte dos métodos da etnografia virtual, a observação participante e o diário de campo para coleta dos dados. Analisa os dados a partir da perspectiva da análise documental, ligada ao contexto da pesquisa na internet, unindo-se à Análise de Redes Sociais a fim de alcançar os objetivos propostos na pesquisa. Concluiu-se, durante a pesquisa, que as mídias sociais De olho na CI possibilitam a ocorrência de redes sociais na internet e que as mesmas mostraram um crescimento relevante dentro da rede internet e entre os profissionais da informação que buscam conhecimentos para sua formação profissional.